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About Shu Wan
I am currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. My dissertation primarily examine the history of deafness, including deaf politics, deaf community, and deaf education, in China between the 1880s and 1940s.Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. As a digital and disability historian, he serves in the editorial team of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Nursing Clio. On Twitter: @slissw.
NBN Episodes hosted by Shu:
August 23, 2024
Codes of Modernity
In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing s…
August 17, 2024
With Grit and a Big Heart
What does it take to become a teacher today and how does one become a teacher? Theodore G. Zervas's book With Grit and a Big Heart: A Beginners Guide …
August 10, 2024
Advertising Disability
Ella Houston's book Advertising Disability (Routledge, 2024) invites Cultural Disability Studies to consider how advertising, as one of the most ubiqu…
August 6, 2024
Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave
Why do "second wave" and "trans feminism" rarely get considered together? Challenging the idea that trans feminism is antagonistic to, or arrived afte…
July 27, 2024
Applied Global Health Humanities
Fella Benabed's book Applied Global Health Humanities: Readings in the Global Anglophone Novel (de Gruyter, 2024) highlights the importance of global …
July 24, 2024
Theater as Data
In Theater As Data: Computational Journeys Into Theater Research (U Michigan Press, 2021), Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational met…
July 7, 2024
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach…
July 2, 2024
Bonds of Salvation
Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation: How Christianity Inspired and Limited American Abolitionism (LSU Press, 2020) demonstrates how religion structured th…
June 30, 2024
Behind Crimmigration
In recent years, dozens of counties in North Carolina have partnered with federal law enforcement in the criminalization of immigration--what many hav…
June 26, 2024
Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City
In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white a…
June 25, 2024
Making History Move
Making History Move: Five Principles of the Historical Film (Rutgers UP, 2024) builds upon decades of scholarship investigating history in visual cult…
May 28, 2024
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining
The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (Cambridge UP, 2022) celebrates the bold new research now possible because of text…
April 27, 2024
Podcasting in a Platform Age
Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium (Bloomsbury, 2024) explores the transition underway in podcasting by considerin…
April 22, 2024
Forever Struggle
Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras o…
April 20, 2024
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal
Measurements, and their manipulation, have been underestimated as crucial historical forces motivating and guiding the way we think about disability. …
April 14, 2024
Chinese Espresso
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas sin…
March 24, 2024
Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel
Tim Lanzendörfer's Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel (Edinburgh UP, 2023) highlights the emergence of a literary mode, spec…
January 29, 2024
Feeling Lucky
Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consump…
October 29, 2023
Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure
Children's leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured pare…
October 22, 2023
At the Frontier of God's Empire
To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odys…
October 4, 2023
Design, Disability and Embodiment
Janice Rieger's book Design, Disability and Embodiment: Spatial Justice and Perspectives of Power (Routledge, 2023) explores the spatial and social in…
October 3, 2023
The Future of China's Past
Albert Welter's book The Future of China's Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China's Rise (SUNY Press, 2023) examines how China's traditional cultur…